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45th Trofeo Laigueglia - 1.1Italy, February 23, 20082007 Results Results Past Winners Paolini prevails in tight affairLuca Paolini of Team Acqua Sapone - Caffè Mokambo won the 45th edition of the Trofeo Laigueglia in a bunch sprint, relegating his compatriot Daniele Pietropolli (LPR Brakes) and Argentinean Maximiliano Richeze (CSF Group Navigare) to second and third, respectively. The sprint was a tight affair, with only millimetres separating the three front runners. It was the first victory of the season for Paolini, who had moved from Liquigas to Acqua Sapone at the beginning of this season. Paolini's team manager, Palmiro Masciarelli, was very satisfied with how the race played out and congratulated the team for "the hard work and that everyone was able to find the right motivation." Third place finisher Richeze was also very happy, despite narrowly missing out on the win. "The guys were working very well. After the last GPM there were still the best riders around and I felt in the condition to participate in the sprint. The last kilometres were very animated; then Lampre controlled things at the front. I took the wheel of [Mirco] Lorenzetto, while [team-mate Tiziano] Dall'Antonia was marking [Filippo] Pozzato." Richeze added that "with 180 metres to go I started my sprint, but there was a strong headwind and Paolini was strong enough to jump around me in the last 80 metres. Nonetheless, I am satisfied that I was able to contest for the victory in a classic as important and tough as this one; it's a sign that my condition is more than good." Dall'Antonia ended up in tenth place and completed a good result for CSF Group Navigare. The race was marked by the attack of Frenchman Yoann Le Boulanger (Française des Jeux) after 49 kilometres. He was quickly joined by Lithuanian Dainius Kairelis (Ceramica Flaminia-Bossini Docce). The duo got an advantage of almost ten minutes, before the peloton finally reacted. But it took a long time to catch the two, who ended up in front for about 120 kilometres, only sucked in by a reduced peloton of about 50 riders ten kilometres from the finish. The directeur sportif for Kairelis, Massimo Podenzana, commented that "it is a pity their action wasn't crowned with a success." Podenzana concluded that it was mostly the stiff headwind that prevented the two from staying away. Once the break was caught there was a flurry of short-lived attacks, before the field settled in for a sprint. PhotographyFor a thumbnail gallery of these images, click here Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
Results - 183.3km1 Luca Paolini (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 4.39.13 (39.389 kn/h) 2 Daniele Pietropolli (Ita) LPR Brakes 3 Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) CSF Group Navigare 4 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Barloworld 5 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 6 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC 7 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas 8 Alessandro Bertolini (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 9 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Miche - Silvercross 10 Tiziano dall'Antonia (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 11 Theo Eltink (Ned) Rabobank 12 Antonio d'Aniello (Ita) Cermica Flaminia Bossini Doce 13 Pieter Jacobs (Bel) Silence - Lotto 14 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team High Road 15 Maurizio Biondo (Ita) Cermica Flaminia Bossini Doce 16 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 17 Raffaele Illiano (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 18 Dries Devenyns (Bel) Silence - Lotto 19 Ricardo Serrano (Spa) Tinkoff Credit Systems 20 Serge Pauwels (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 21 Nicola D'andrea (Ita) Miche - Silvercross 22 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Barloworld 23 Francesco Reda (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 24 Niklas Axelsson (Swe) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 25 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 26 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 27 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 28 Federico Canuti (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 29 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 30 Bert De Waele (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 31 Nicolas Hartmann (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 32 Mikhail Ignatiev (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 33 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 34 Massimiliano Gentili (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 35 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) Silence - Lotto 36 Francesco Failli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 37 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence-Lotto 38 Marco Marzano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 39 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 40 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Team High Road 41 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Silence - Lotto 42 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 43 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team High Road 44 Gabriele Bosisio (Ita) LPR Brakes 45 Andrea Pagoto (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 46 Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (Col) CSF Group Navigare 47 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 48 Danilo Di Luca (Ita) LPR Brakes 49 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Liquigas 50 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 51 Eddy Ratti (Ita) Nippo - Endeka 52 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas 53 Massimo Codol (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 54 Thomas Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 55 Luca Mazzanti (Ita) Tinkoff Credit Systems 56 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 57 Emanuele Sella (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 58 Dainius Kairelis (Ltu) Cermica Flaminia Bossini Doce 59 Giampaolo Cheula (Ita) Barloworld 60 Giairo Ermeti (Ita) LPR Brakes 61 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram 62 Valerio Agnoli (Ita) Liquigas 63 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 64 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 65 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 66 Andrea Noè (Ita) Liquigas 67 Vasili Kiryienka (Blr) Tinkoff Credit Systems 68 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Française des Jeux 69 Raffaele Ferrara (Ita) LPR Brakes 70 Marco Frapporti (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 71 Mauro Finetto (Ita) CSF Group Navigare 72 Paolo Longo Borghini (Ita) Barloworld 73 Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Française des Jeux 74 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua Sapone-Caffè Mokambo 75 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 76 Jyualian Atehortua Bedo 77 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 78 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Mitsubishi-Jartazi 79 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 80 Jérôme Coppel (Fra) Française des Jeux 81 Frederik Veuchelen (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 82 Eddy Serri (Ita) Miche - Silvercross 83 Riccardo Chiarini (Ita) LPR Brakes 84 Paolo Bailetti (Ita) LPR Brakes 85 Volodymir Gustov (Ukr) Team CSC 86 Marco Osella (Ita) Preti Mangimi 87 Slawomir Kohut (Pol) Amore & Vita-McDonald's 88 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 89 Krzysztof Szczawinski (Pol) Miche - Silvercross 90 Matej Jurco (Svk) Team Milram 91 Kevin Neirynck (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 92 Vincenzo Garofalo (Ita) Nippo-Endeka 93 Lorenzo Cardellini (Ita) Miche - Silvercross 94 Gabriele Missaglia (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli 95 William Frischkorn (USA) Slipstream Chipotle - H30 96 Michele Gobbi (Ita) Preti Mangimi 97 Michael Stevenson (Swe) Amore & Vita-McDonald's 98 Przemyslaw Niemec (Pol) Miche-Silver Cross 99 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 100 Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Team Milram 101 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 102 Andy Cappelle (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 103 Bert Scheirlinckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet-Tönissteiner 104 Koen Barbe (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 105 Silvère Ackermann (Swi) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 106 Piergiorgio Camussa (Ita) NGC Medical - OTC Industria Porte 107 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 108 Serhiy Honchar (Ukr) Preti Mangimi 109 Michael Barry (Can) Team High Road 110 Sven Renders (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 111 Anthony Roux (Fra) Française des Jeux 112 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Cermica Flaminia Bossini Doce 113 Alessandro Bertuola (Ita) Preti Mangimi 114 Huub Duyn (Ned) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 115 Nikita Eskov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 116 Bradley McGee (Aus) Team CSC 117 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux 118 Ilya Chernetskiy (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems 119 Peter Velits (Svk) Team Milram 120 Bart Vanheule (Bel) Topsport Vlaanderen 121 Tony Martin (Ger) Team High Road 122 Kanstantin Siutsou (Blr) Team High Road 123 Frantisek Rabon (Cze) Team High Road 124 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 125 Alessandro Maserati (Ita) LPR Brakes 126 Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Lampre - Fondital 127 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Preti Mangimi 128 Craig Lewis (USA) Team High Road 129 Lucas Euser (USA) Slipstream Chipotle Presented By H30 Past winners
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